Hossein Jorjani

Senior Geneticist, Deputy Director

PhD

Hossein has had his education at a number of colleges and universities around the world: Tehran, Glasgow, Ayr, Edinburgh, and Uppsala. He has been employed at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences since 1989, first in the section for Quantitative Genetics, then in the section for General Animal Breeding, and has been working at the Interbull Centre since November 1998. Hossein’s responsibilities at the Interbull Centre include research aimed at improvement of national data quality and improvement of the currently used methodology (MACE), such as finding more efficient ways to estimate genetic correlations among countries.Hossein is the Head of the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics since January 2014.